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awl-shaped, and about as long as the floAver ; bulb small. A form having 

 leaves somewhat flattened, and with more numerous ribs beneath, is the 

 Mountain Garlic (A. carinatum) of some writers. The Streaked Field Garlic 

 is not a common plant, though not rare in some parts of Essex, as about 

 Felstead and Dunmow, where it is found in corn-fields. It flowers in July, 

 bearing dingy, yellowish-white blossoms on long stalks, with numerous reddish- 

 purple bulbils on a stem which is leafy below. The leaves are used in cookery, 

 and have the Garlic odour in great power. 



* * Leaves hollow. 



5. Chive Garlic, or Rush-leaved Onion (A. schoendprasum). — Umbel 

 globose, with many flowers, and without bulbils ; stem naked, or with 1 leaf ; 

 leaves slender, rounded or grooved above, and pointed ; spathes 2 ; stamens 

 undivided ; bulbs small, tufted and stalked. This is a pretty Garlic, bearing, 

 in June and July, dense heads of bright purple or pinkish blossoms, on a 

 stem about half a foot to a foot in height. It is found, though very rarely, 

 in meadows and rocky pastures. A form, with the leaves curved, and the 

 style longer than the young germen, is the A. sihiricum of some writers ; 

 it grows on rocks and clifts on the sea-shcre of Cornwall. It is larger than 

 the ordinary form of Chive Garlic, and diff'ers in the bending form instead of 

 the upright leaves. 



6. Crow Garlic {A. rineule). — Umbel globose, bearing bulbs, 3 alternate 

 stamens deeply 3-cleft, projecting beyond the perianth; leaves cylindrical, 

 smooth ; spathe of one leaf ; bulb small. This is one of the more common 

 kinds of Garlic, growing in corn-fields and waste places in various parts of 

 England and the south of Scotland. It occurs on sand-hills in some parts of 

 the Kentish shore, as on those near Deal, where a variety is found destitute 

 of bulbs. In ordinary specimens, these are, however, very numerous, and 

 are small, oval, and greenish-brown; the flowers being small, few, and of 

 pale rose colour, with green keels, having the anthers much protruded. The 

 plant flowers in July. 



7. Small Round-headed Garlic {A. sphcerocSphalum). — Umbel globose, 

 without bulbs ; leaves nearly cylindrical, smooth, channelled above, alternate 

 stamens, 3-cleft ; capsule triangular, with blunt edges ; bulb having stalked 

 offsets, perennial. This is a plant bearing, in June and July, numerous rose- 

 coloured or purple flowers. It has a stem one or two feet high, and leafy 

 below. It was discovered by Messrs. Babington and Christ}'', on the sands 

 of St. Aubin's Bay, Jersey ; it also occurs at St. Vincent's Rocks, Bristol. 



8. Triangular-stalked Garlic (A. iriquefrum). — Umbel lax-flowered, 

 without bulbils ; spathes 2, lance-shaped ; leaves sharply keeled, embracing 

 base of flower-stems ; bulb egg-shaped, small. This species is confined to 

 Cornwall and Guernsey, so far as its distribution in these islands is concerned. 

 The scape, which is from a foot to eighteen inches high, is stout and three- 

 edged. The white, bell-shaped flowers all lean to one side of the head. 



* * * Leaves broad and flat. 



9. Broad-leaved Garlic, or Ramsons (A. ursinum). — Umbel nearly 

 level at the top, without bulbs ; leaves rising from the bulb, between egg- 



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